Comment 6 for bug 85574
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| kko (kko) wrote Re: equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog (solution provided) | #6 |
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It turns out that equivs-build actually needs the maintainer field (if present) to be of the form "Maintainer: foo <email address hidden>", so that it contains both a name and an e-mail address. The error message it gives (shown above) isn't really helpful.
So, running 'equivs-build foo' with both the below control files (by the name 'foo') works.
control file 1:
Package: foo
Version: 1.2
Maintainer: foo <email address hidden>
Depends: dpkg
Architecture: all
Description: foo
bar baz
control file 2:
Package: foo
Version: 1.2
Depends: dpkg
Architecture: all
Description: foo
bar baz